I am picking up hints, via comments here and elsewhere, that the transcript of Cardinal Mahony’s chat that has been posted is not, let us say, identifiable as the chat that occurred on Friday, at least in part. If anyone […]

More photos of the Masses – in Rome and in Poland – here. There are remembrances all over the blogosphere, of course, and you all have your favorites. Tomorrow, though, be sure to check the Roaming Roman’s site – she […]

This article is a few weeks old, but it just showed up in our local paper today: A WSJ piece on Sony’s tactics for "avoiding" controversy with DVC (Whether or not they really want to avoid controversy is a question […]

The Pope today: Towards the end, Benedict XVI recalled the last days of John Paul II, sick and in silence. The pope said the Lord “stripped him of everything to assimilate him with himself… His gestures and proclamations were reduced […]

A few weeks ago, we noted the excellent series on liturgy being written by Bishop Slattery of Tulsa and published in the diocesan paper. The Curt Jester has taken what I believe is the latest letter and, as he said, […]

The NYTimes on the battle over the SF church: Michela Alioto-Pier, a city supervisor whose district includes St. Brigid and who has shepherded negotiations between the Academy of Art and the parishioners’ group since January, believes that the university is […]

Amy Welborn

Amy Welborn was born in 1960, the only child of a now-retired professor of political science, a teacher-librarian-artist mother,deceased since 2001, was a teacher, librarian and artist. The Catholicism comes from her side.

Amy grew up in a number of places - Indiana - Washington, DC - Lubbock Texas - Arlington, Virginia - DeKalb, Illinois - Lawrence, Kansas - and Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family settled in 1973. She attended Knoxville Catholic High School, then the University of Tennessee where she majored in history. She received an MA in Church History from Vanderbilt University, where she wrote a thesis on the changing role of women in 19th century American Protestantism, and the ways Scripture was used to justify those changes.

She worked as as a teacher in Catholic high schools and a Parish Director of Religious Education and started writing for the diocesan press - the Florida Catholic - in 1988. Amy has written columns for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service at times over the past twenty years. Her articles have been published in venues ranging from Our Sunday Visitor to the New York Times to Commonweal. She has written 17 books. 18, if you included the as yet tragically unpublished novel.

Amy has five children, ranging in age from 26 to 4 and was married to Michael Dubruiel, who died unexpectedly in February 2009. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.